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experience-curve

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• Does Wright's law trace cleanly to T.P. Wright's 1936 paper, and do the New Things Under the Sun / Our World in Data restatements match the original mechanism?
  capture promoted 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, experience-curve, tp-wright-1936
• The experience curve originates in an 1899 psychology study of telegraph operators — whose learning curve had plateaus that Wright's 1936 industrial law smoothed away
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · learning-curve, experience-curve, wrights-law, history-of-psychology, telegraphy
• Nordhaus argues the learning-curve coefficient is statistically unidentified and biased upward — a zero-learning process still fits a coefficient of 0.2
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · economics, learning-curve, experience-curve, wrights-law, econometrics
• Organizational forgetting can run the learning curve backwards: on the Lockheed L-1011, unit costs rose when production slowed
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-18 · economics, learning-curve, experience-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing
• Wright's law: unit cost falls a constant fraction with every doubling of cumulative production
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-12 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, experience-curve, price-dynamics
• The learning curve can't tell you whether a cost collapse will last
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · learning-curve, experience-curve, wrights-law, technology-forecasting, cost-decline